In honour of the Beijing Olympics, posting one of my favourite music videos of Spike Jonze, Electrobank for the Chemical Brothers, starring Sophia Coppola.
Am wondering why more music videos don’t use this milieu, it feels like an area ripe as a visual playground. Jonze sets the bar high as ever, but there’s still plenty of [...]
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Houllebecq hellbent on sci-fi
An extraordinary piece of Le cinéma du look, with the author remixing his own text radically? Evaluate in September 2008 when this is due for release…
“Michel Houllebecq’s 2006 novel La Possibilité d’une île (The Possibility of an Island) has appeared on the Internet. La Possibilité d’une île is an acerbic piece of dystopian science fiction [...]
Human cartographics
This feels like signature Lost in Space work by Rob Rae. Beautiful austere monochrome precision tracing the lines of human cartography.
Fading Object from Motioncult on Vimeo.
A peek into Michel Gondry’s perversity
A perverse and almost deliberately naive list in equal measures of Michel Gondry’s Top 25 classic music video picks. It is almost nonsensically random, even though it gives decent credit to first-gen pioneers like Pope, etc - can only think this was deliberately for the EW audience.
Michel Gondry picks 25 classic music videos:
Conceptually yours: music video directions in 2008
I was asked to write this piece to accompany the MuVi programme for the Oberhausen Short Film Festival music video programme and awards this year. It was a great follow up to being on the jury in 2007, and an opportunity to think of the current big narrative and aesthetic trends in the area.
Conceptually Yours
Dynamic [...]
Binary symphony for Radiohead’s Nude
I first experienced a live dot matrix symphony back in the Nineties at a Sonar festival, Barcelona. It’s nice to see James Houston has revisited this concept and ramped it up on both a auditory and visual level to create another pop promo which validates the conclusion of the essay I wrote for the Oberhausen [...]
Lynch’s proto-dreamworld
David Lynch’s 55 second short filmed with an original Lumiere camera. 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, no synchronized sound was [...]
Music video arthoused
Kanye West’s latest visual hijinks: unapproved video remixes of arthouse favourites as instant quality music videos for Graduation. Wong Kar Wai’s 2046, and mainly footage from the BUF produced future city images of the melancholic sci-fier are utilised.
GRADUATION ALBUM LISTENING EXPERIENCE PT. 6 - FLASHING LIGHTS from kwest on Vimeo.
Ballardian video gain with Vista 8
Vista 8 is the winner of the 1st Ballardian Festival of Home Movies. Other finalists of this sub-one minute in-camera mobile phone video recordings also show a provocative analogue/digital purity.
As someone who’s experimented with mobile phone footage for years (the frozen ROAM project - pushing new aesthetics for the mobile screen/locative video) - this is [...]
Ardour quelled over Bjork’s Wanderlust
I thought it might be Hiyao Miyazaki-esque in its ambitious reach for the fantastical, but after all the hype Bjork’s latest videoclip, the epic 9-month in the making Wanderlust, washes over you as ineffectually as the river that she travels along within it.
Maybe viewing it in high definition 3D might be a revelation, but [...]
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